Imagination, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Kindness, n. A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Litigant, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Liberty, n. One of Imaginations most precious possessions.

Male, n. A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex. The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man. The genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

Decalogue, n. A series of commandments, ten in number-just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.